• Brumefey@sh.itjust.works
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    I’m from Europe and I don’t have any single example of privatisation leading to improvement. Everything went shittier and more expensive due to privatisation. The perfect example is in France with EDF (electricity).

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    yra, expect it’s going to do the same thing in the US too. Not looking forward to it.

  • RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works
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    The only reason to privatize the USPS is to be able to take loans against the pension so you can indirectly steal the pension.

    This benefits no one.

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        Absolutely. When people say “This benefits no one!” It’s usually because they aren’t the ones benefiting from it, and can’t internalise that they’re going to be getting fucked so someone, who already has more money than most Nations could spend in several decades, gets a bit more money.

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          can’t internalise that they’re going to be getting fucked so someone,

          And instead of learning the fucking lesson a normie decides to bootlicker harder.

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            Unfortunately, that’s almost a century of indoctrination at work. If they manage to oust the Fascists, thr US can look forward to a long hard road of deprogramming a vast portion of their population. If they even care to. Probably better off going full collapse and rebuilding as a bunch of new countries.

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    Anyone who seriously proposes privatizing the US postal service should be removed from power. They’re either trying to harm the US, or are too stupid to be trusted with anything more dangerous than a paper towel.

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    Yeah, but it will make the line go up.

    We must feed the beast our flesh and our happiness. We must scrape our souls to the rind, and hollow our humanity. We must empty the deep well of society that is fed by our interconnectedness. We must pour it all into the gaping maw of capitalism.

    The line must go up.